A new imaging technique enables scientists to obtain structural information about brain tissue that was previously difficult to access. Diattenuation imaging (DI) can be used to distinguish brain areas with many thin nerve fibres from regions with few thick nerve fibres. Until now, this separation was not easily possible with other imaging methods.
Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University of Münster have presented a new solid-state battery featuring an anode made of pure lithium. Lithium is considered an ideal electrode material which can help achieve extremely high energy densities. The metal is very reactive, which previously precluded its use as an anode material. This has now been made possible by means of two additional layers of a novel polymer. With Prof. Rüdiger A. Eichel and Prof. Florian Hausen, two JARA-ENERGY members are significantly involved in the investigations.
Researchers from Jülich, Poland and Japan have discovered and analysed a new many-body state in an iron crystal. Its existence sheds new light on the physics of the interaction of conducting electrons and magnons which are excitations in magnetic systems. The JARA-FIT scientists Prof. Stefan Blügel and Prof. Claus Michael Schneider are significantly involved in the investigations.
Prof. Karen Veroy-Grepl Ph.D. (Graduate School AICES) has received a coveted Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).ERC Consolidator grants are designed to support researchers at the stage of consolidating their own research team or programme. This grant scheme strengthens recently created independent and excellent research teams.
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the list of new ERC Consolidator Grant holders. For the second time, JARA-FIT scientist Prof. Christoph Stampfer has been awarded an ERC Grant. After an ERC Starting Grant in 2011, the physicist will now receive a Consolidator Grant. The funding amounts to up to two million euros over a period of five years.
